best FOUR ALBUM RUN of the 2000s (aka the Stevie Awards)

it's Ghostface by a mile.

yep.

I'm cool with the Stripes, AC, and Spoon bein closely behind tho

four albums' worth of material in 3 and a half years is not exactly superhuman, tbh (xpost)

def. Broadcast too

Scar
Tiny Voices
Civilians
Blood From Stars

I was gonna suggest that Ted Leo run.

oh this won't count but in so many ways it's my answer

love/hate
how to be a lady: vol 1
love vs. money
memoirs of an imperfect angel

This four-album run would be somewhere in my Top Five for the decade:

• Things We Lost in the Fire (2001)
• Trust (2002)
• The Great Destroyer (2005)
• Drums and Guns (2007)

four is ~really~ tough, esp. within this decade. Dylan(3), Wussy(3), Drive-by Truckers(3, but not in a row) & Sonic Youth come close. But the best run of four in a row, for my money, is Youssou N'Dour:
Joko (The Link)
Nothing's in Vain
Egypt
Rokku Mi Rokka

^^^oh, yeah, that's a good one.

Felt Mountain
Black Cherry
Supernature
Seventh Tree

isn't too shabby

How about

Catharsis
The Illusion Of Motion
The Unreal Never Lived
The Great Cessation

or even

Blast Tyrant
Robot Hive: Exodus
From Beale Street To Oblivion
Strange Cousins From The West

Despite outdoor_miner's comments to the contrary, I was jumping in to specifically post the run of:

Murray Street
Sonic Nurse
Rather Ripped
The Eternal

Pretty fantastic run imho.

I'd actually be really curious to hear jazz nominations for the '00s. Though that might be tough, I guess, since some of those guys seem to realease four albums in a single year, and with collaborations it might not be obvious which albums to count as regular releases. Still curious who would be nominated, though -- James Carter, David S. Ware, Dave Douglas? Or more likely, somebody I know nothing about.

Luomo:

Vocalcity
The Present Lover
Paper Tigers
Convivial

But I consider Paper Tigers a dud.

Xiu Xiu:

Knife Play
A Promise
Fabulous Muscles
La Foret

Lawrence:

Lawrence
Absence of Blight
The Night Will Last Forever
Until Then, Goodbye

ok we're officially stretching now

you can't start an open-ended list thread and expect people to just stop posting after they cover all the canonical bases, even if you explicitly tell them to

u can't be surprised that this turned into "artists who released 4 albums in the 2000s"

Yeah, I guess I'm not really willing to make an argument for any of those. I'll shut up now. :)

xp Also, "best" vs "personal pet favorites" is a false dichotomy in the first place, obviously.

posts very much in character

Look forward to the singles version of this thread (though maybe the criteria needs to be a bit more stringent?).

already had it best consecutive 5 singles of this decade

Ahh, cool, thanks.

I'd actually be really curious to hear jazz nominations for the '00s.

Nicole Mitchell/Black Earth Ensemble:

Vision Quest (2001)
Hope, Future, Destiny (2004)
Black Unstoppable (2007)
Xenogenesis Suite (2009)

http://www.nicolemitchell.com/

automatic midnight
suicide invoice
audit in progress
thunder down under

rocket to the moon
the power out
axes
no shouts, no calls

Murray Street
Sonic Nurse
Rather Ripped
The Eternal

Pretty fantastic run imho

just for the record- i don't disagree at all, jon, but i just don't love nurse as much as i want to.

Sea Change
Guero
The Information
Modern Guilt

The College Dropout
Late Registraton
Graduation
808s & Heartbreak

^my vote

wish i liked late reg more it'd be mine too

wayne:

carter 2
dedication 2
lil weezyana
da drought 3

(this is stretching tho cuz i cherry picked mixtapes)

i've always been butthurt about people not adhering strictly to the 5 singles premise in that thread - i wanted video game soundtrack singles & joy division covers counted against!

of Montreal:

2004 Satanic Panic in the Attic
2005 The Sunlandic Twins
2007 Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2008 Skeletal Lamping

camera obscura's four albums of the decade are pretty strong:

biggest bluest hi fi (2001)
underachievers please try harder
let's get out of this country
my maudlin career

i want to say lucksmiths but two of their six albums this decade are comps, and their last album wasn't very good.

i dig stars albums quite a bit:

# Nightsongs (2001)
# Heart (2003)
# Set Yourself on Fire (2004)
# In Our Bedroom after the War (2007)

z-ro

life of joseph w mcvey
let the truth be told
i'm still livin
crack

project pat!

mista don't play
layin da smack down
crook by da book
walki bank roll

tom waits:

Blood Money (2002)
Alice (2002)
Real Gone (2004)
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards (2006)

i like the of montreal one

Rated R (2000)
Desert Sessions 7 & 8 (2001)
Songs For The Deaf (2002)
Desert Sessions 9 & 10 (2003)

High On Fire:

Art of Self Defense
Surrounded by Thieves
Blessed Black Wings
Death is this Communion

FYHCYWLaP
Storytelling
Dear Catastrophe Waitress
whatever that last album was called

Read & Burn 01 (2002)
Read & Burn 02 (2002)
Send (2003)
Read & Burn 03 (2007)
Object 47 (2008)

I guess those first 2 can count as one.. But some of the same songs are on "Send".. so yeah, that's a weird one..

High On Fire might be a serious contender if that new album drops by the end of the year

The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000)
The Blueprint (2001)
The Blueprint 2 (2002)
The Black Album (2003)

haha I dare someone to try this w/Madlib

"remember: strict chronological order, kids"

also really like these runs:

Wilco:

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (April 23, 2002)
A Ghost Is Born (June 22, 2004)
Sky Blue Sky (May 15, 2007)
Wilco (The Album) (June 30, 2009)

The Blueprint 2 (2002)

gtfo

certainly

paper tigers is unaccountably disfavored, too

Yeah I never got why paper tigers was so bad and hated

one touch (2000)
angel with dirty faces (2002)
three (2003)
taller in more ways (2005)

sung tongs
feels
strawberry jam
merriweather post pavilion

Wussy deserve some mention here even though the last one came out in 2011.

Funeral Dress 2005
Left for Dead 2007
Wussy 2009
Strawberry 2011

If you add the last two Ass Ponys albums from 2000 and 2001 Chuck Cleaver has a Stevie and a half going.

lambchop

Is a woman
Aw cmon/No you cmon
Damaged
Ohio
Mr. M

i still think EPs (or mini-albums or whatever you wanna call them) should count for this especially if they are considered among the artist's strongest output (like "Young Liars" for example) and especially if the EP was crafted by the artist as a self-contained sequence of music (as opposed to b-sides collections like "Airbag/How Am I Driving" or remix albums like "Further Down The Spiral"). within certain contexts, i think this exception makes perfect sense.

my reasoning is that the initial stevie wonder 4-in-a-row that inspired this idea was built from 4 consecutive releases without EPs or shorter releases scattered in between. and plus they were all released within a 4-year span as opposed to getting spread across all 10 years of the 70s like many of the 2000s artists mentioned in this thread. (stevie had 8 albums throughout the 70s.)

Would be interested in a 90s version of this.